Off by thanking George Washington university for hosting the event this morning. And behalf of the center of global interest, my name is mike to sell. I will be very brief so we can get to what turned out to be a fantastic set of speakers. Has kicked off a project that we thought up in anticipation of the 2018 world cup in russia. We started with the premise that everything is connected, that sport is not disconnected from history and politics and anything else. If you dont agree with that, it is not up for debate today. You will have to live with it. The program will include andtional panelists publications in collaboration. It is an opportunity to look at the social, Economic Issues through sport. That is good for two reasons. One, we have all been invited to russia in 2018 effectively. These are rough times for u. S. Russia relations. A rough time for the russian people, increasingly isolated in many respects and an opportunity for something sort of good to happen. The debate over w
Its important we work with our allies and we have to continue to do that. He not going to predict what issue will be inside japanese politics, but i think it is important that as allies, we Work Together. There are risks in the work we do every single day. We understand that going in and we want to prevent any of those risks, but sometimes, unfortunately, we have access. Reporter if you weeks ago, general hodges told reporters about a plan with the united train what is to the equivalent to the International Garden rack and theres a plan to train military forces in ukraine. Do you have enough data on that . Gen. Odierno we do have a plan but we have not made a decision on whether we have decided to move forward on that. If you had extra money to use, where would you use that . Gen. Odierno modernization and no lowern strength than 450,000 as our active component. We have to invest in readiness. Im going to take one more question and barbara, im going to let you let you ask it. I hope i
They have sensors equipped on them so they can detect vibrations. Using vibration detection, you figure out when a bridge is likely to fail and intervene before that happens. This has huge implications. We saw in minnesota the collapse of the bridge there. Recently i10 outside of los angeles. This is a huge problem in the United States. Using connected devices to get realtime information about which bridges, highway structures should be replaced sooner. I pressed the button everyone told me not to press. I press it again. Hows that . The other thing transforming homes. This is really interesting way. People are familiar with the net thermostat. Now net has whole line of devices. They have along with that, my favorite is a, they have a smoke alarm and Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide detector. This is not just a Smoke Detector connected to to the internet. Why does that even matter right . Working together with the rest of your home system, if there is fire detected in your home for e
Full. Thats right. Get a quick check of the weather and traffic right now. Tucker washout for the weekend or just today. I mean lets start with today. Definitely a washout the first half of the day. Then scattered showers in the afternoon. Were getting very heavy rains across the area and even the potential for thunderstorm activity, reports of severe thunderstorm down near charlottesville. Bottom line rain in the forecast for the first half of your day. Things become shattered later. Well focus on the weekend forecast in a couple minutes. Erin how are the roads. Roads are terrible tucker. You know what rain can do during the morning commute. This is the outer loop at old dominion. A big crash blocking the right lane right shoulder. Its seeing some big slowdowns. Fire department on location. And if youre take, metro skipping the roads additional delays in both directions on the green line outside college park. In the in addition to the safe track work. We have several other crashes and
Full. Thats right. Get a quick check of the weather and traffic right now. Tucker washout for the weekend or just today. I mean lets start with today. Definitely a washout the first half of the day. Then scattered showers in the afternoon. Were getting very heavy rains across the area and even the potential for thunderstorm activity, reports of severe thunderstorm down near charlottesville. Bottom line rain in the forecast for the first half of your day. Things become shattered later. Well focus on the weekend forecast in a couple minutes. Erin how are the roads. Roads are terrible tucker. You know what rain can do during the morning commute. This is the outer loop at old dominion. A big crash blocking the right lane right shoulder. Its seeing some big slowdowns. Fire department on location. And if youre take, metro skipping the roads additional delays in both directions on the green line outside college park. In the in addition to the safe track work. We have several other crashes and